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Quote from: saatoshi_rising on April 27, 2017, 06:41:08 AM

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This puzzle is very strange. If it's for measuring the world's brute forcing capacity, 161-256 are just a waste (RIPEMD160 entropy is filled by 160, and by all of P2PKH Bitcoin). The puzzle creator could improve the puzzle's utility without bringing in any extra funds from outside - just spend 161-256 across to the unsolved portion 51-160, and roughly treble the puzzle's content density.

If on the other hand there's a pattern to find... well... that's awfully open-ended... can we have a hint or two? Cheesy

I am the creator.

You are quite right, 161-256 are silly. I honestly just did not think of this. What is especially embarrassing, is this did not occur to me once, in two years. By way of excuse, I was not really thinking much about the puzzle at all.

I will make up for two years of stupidity. I will spend from 161-256 to the unsolved parts, as you suggest. In addition, I intend to add further funds. My aim is to boost the density by a factor of 10, from 0.001*length(key) to 0.01*length(key). Probably in the next few weeks. At any rate, when I next have an extended period of quiet and calm, to construct the new transaction carefully.

A few words about the puzzle. There is no pattern. It is just consecutive keys from a deterministic wallet (masked with leading 000...0001 to set difficulty). It is simply a crude measuring instrument, of the cracking strength of the community.

Finally, I wish to express appreciation of the efforts of all developers of new cracking tools and technology. The "large bitcoin collider" is especially innovative and interesting!

Just a reminder for those who joined us here lately ...

This guy, saatoshi_rising, is certainly the creator since he moved the range 161-256 as promised on July 11th 2017

Thnx, by the way has anyone tried using AWS for this?

okay, if there's no secrets on private keys for bitcoin puzzle wallets,(if choosed randomly)

how it's puzzle wallet then? it's not puzzle, it's just searching for luck for the one random of keys between trillions of keys.
we can't solve , because there;s no secret in it, but we can keep searching and try our luck, is not?

Just read the thread instead of asking same questions over, and over, and over again. Once upon a time it was not clear what this transactions is all about and this "puzzled" people, from this came the Title of this thread. After some years everything was cleared and creator of the transaction confirmed what community already concluded about it. "Puzzle" is for historical reasons, not meaning something can be solved like normal puzzle.